Authors:
Wachidatul Zulfiyah
1
;
Elma Prastika Maharani
1
;
Zakiyatul Muti'ah
1
;
Muhammad Mahpur
1
and
Yusuf Ratu Agung
2
Affiliations:
1
Psychology Faculty, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, Indonesia
;
2
Center of Indigenous and Peace Psychology Team, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Gusdurian, Cognitive Scheme, Peace
Abstract:
A schema is a set of structures of knowledge or understanding of some concept or stimulus. The scheme contains knowledge about concepts or stimuli, relationships between various understandings of the concept, and specific examples. The Gusdurian community appears to carry the message that peaceful thinking must be fertilized from ourselves. In Malang, there are Gusdurian communities which consist of various social, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. This study tries to examine the cognitive scheme of activists in the Gusdurian Malang community and identify the factors that influence it; the subjects are 6 members of Gusdurian Malang and qualitative methods with data collection techniques are used through interviews, documents, and data analysis. The results of this study found that there were emotional, informational, and prejudice factors that influenced activists before joining Gusdurian Malang, as well as motivational factors, communication, and knowledge found in Gusdurian Malang
activists to change cognitive schemes so as to bring peace to their souls.
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